The Cabinet Committee on Accommodation (CCA) on Thursday decided to allot a government bungalow to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for five years because he “faces a security threat”. Swamy, a private citizen who lives in Nizamuddin East, is not entitled to a government bungalow under the criteria for allotment of such accommodation. According to the […]
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The government’s brave and optimistic posturing on the economy met with reality on Friday, with its mid-term economic review revising downward growth projection of both real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP) to 7-7.5% and 8.25%, respectively for the current fiscal. The earlier growth forecast was 8.1-8.5%. Arvind Subramanian, chief economic advisor (CEA) to the
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Gujarat Congress alleged that the state government spent Rs 31 lakh on raising a lavish tent for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Dhordo in Rann of Kutch, where he will stay during the ongoing meeting of country’s top police brass. The annual three-day conference of directors general of police and inspectors general of police organised
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The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict that has claimed more than a quarter million lives. The resolution gives a UN blessing to a plan negotiated previously in Vienna that
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Congress’ top leaders – president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul – are all set to appear before the Patiala House district court here in connection with the National Herald case on Saturday. But they are not willing to reveal their cards fully, on whether Rahul will be applying for bail or will prefer to go
The juvenile offender in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case is set to walk out of the special home in the next few days, after the Delhi high court on Friday refused to stay his release citing lack of any legal provision to intervene. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath
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A 12-year-old Sikh boy, Armaan Singh Sarai, has been in the police custody for three days for cracking a joke to his classmate that he has a bomb in his backpack, a cousin of the boy wrote in a Facebook post this week. “A bully in class thought it would be funny to accuse him
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There was chaos at Patna airport today after a passenger who was travelling from Goa to Lucknow in an Indigo flight 633 disappeared from the plane. Mudit Sharma was travelling to Lucknow with his wife and four more members of his family when the plane landed in Patna. Sharma told his wife that he was
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Big budgets. Big directors. Big stars. With ‘Dilwale’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’, both much-awaited Bollywood cinematic extravaganzas, releasing together on Friday, industry experts believe the clash will have a strong impact on the overall collections of the year. However, it’s best not to expect a new record! “Clashes are obviously not great,” superstar Shah Rukh Khan,
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You sense you are in the presence of something extraordinarily creative the minute you step into the world of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, a costume drama clothed in the conceit of the times when royal arrogance permitted social injustices as a birthright, and brought to incandescent life by a filmmaker who understands the layered
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Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi on Thursday lashed out at the Delhi and District Cricket Association, stating that the state government does not need permission to probe the alleged financial irregularities in the sports body. Bedi’s statement came soon after the DDCA again strongly refuted AAP’s allegations of financial bungling by Finance Minister and
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Taare Zameen Par director Amole Gupte will be making a biopic on the world’s leading badminton player Saina Nehwal, the shooting for which will begin next year. “Taare Zameen Par director Amole Gupte will make a biopic on my daughter (Saina Nehwal), and the shooting will commence next year,” Saina’s father Harvir Singh told PTI.
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Rajat Bhatia’s unbeaten 94 eclipsed Ajinkya Rahane’s strokeful 114 in Rajasthan’s five-wicket win over Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Thursday. Bhatia’s blistering innings off 71 balls helped Rajasthan chase down the 302-run target in 49 overs. Rahane, playing his second match of the domestic competition, steered Mumbai to 301 for nine. Besides Bhatia’s
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Pakistan’s T20 captain Shahid Afridi is prepared for a tough World T20 campaign in India after the ICC announced the draws of the biennial event in March-April. “It is a tough draw for us and we are looking forward to the second match against India in Dharamasala,” he told the media on Thursday. “We have
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Prime Minister David Cameron urged European Union leaders on Thursday to agree to “substantial reforms” and demonstrate the kind of flexibility on migration that Britain needed for him to persuade voters to stay in the bloc. In his longest address in more than five years attending European Councils, Cameron told the 27 other national leaders
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Notoriously reticent, endlessly opaque, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may at last be asserting itself as the moneyed leader of opposition to Islamic extremism in a move that could well turn out to be one of the more significant geopolitical initiatives of recent times. Riyadh’s announcement that it was leading a coalition of 34 Muslim
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There is a need for a Constitution bench to deliberate on the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Haryana government’s decision to make literacy an essential criterion to contest panchayat elections, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has said. “We need to distinguish between what our objectives are and what is the state of the country… It does
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Opposition leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi will appear in court on Saturday to defend themselves against graft allegations in a case they hope to turn to their advantage by energising their party faithful against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The mother and son are the political heirs of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, that ruled India for most
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In contrary to the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s announcement about liquor ban in Bihar from April 1, the Bihar State Beverages Corporation Limited (BSBCL) on Thursday invited tenders for the Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) shops in the state. The recent order seeking tenders for the new liquor shops in the state has raised the speculations
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Indian consumer electronics firm Micromax Informatics will manufacture all of its phones in India by 2018, its co-founder said, as it shifts production from China back home, where costs are becoming cheaper. Rahul Sharma said with less than two-thirds of its products are assembled in India currently and full home production now made economic sense
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Press Information Bureau shared a picture of the meeting on the microblogging website Twitter. Earlier in the day, India-born CEO addressed 1,800-people strong audience comprising school and college students and teachers at Delhi University’s SRCC. Speaking to the gathering at the country’s prestigious commerce college,
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To a question in Rajya Sabha on whether India has raised the issue of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in international fora, Swaraj replied in affirmative and said government’s principled and consistent position on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir has been that the entire state is an integral part of India. “A new beginning has been
China warned residents across a large part of northern China on Friday to prepare for a wave of choking smog arriving over the weekend, the worst of which is expected to over capital Beijing, prompting the city to issue its second ever “red alert”. The National Meteorological Centre said the smog would stretch from Xian,
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The government on Thursday approved the Rs 39,000-crore acquisition of five advanced Russian S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems, which have even rattled NATO countries because they can destroy incoming hostile aircraft, stealth fighters, missiles and drones at ranges of up to 400 km. The decision by the Manohar Parrikar-led defence acquisitions council (DAC), which
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A 16-year-old Muslim girl from Pune who was apparently radicalised by her ISIS contacts abroad and brainwashed to go to Syria, has been questioned by sleuths of Pune Anti-Terrorism Squad and sent to a de-radicalisation programme, an ATS officer said in Pune late Thursday. The officer said the girl is a bright convent educated class
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A new beginning has been made by India and Pakistan as the two countries have agreed on a new bilateral comprehensive dialogue to address all outstanding issues through peaceful means, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday. To a question in Rajya Sabha on whether India has raised the issue of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US presidential candidate Donald Trump praised each other on Thursday, saying they would welcome an improvement in the now-icy relations between their two nations. Trump – who holds the lead in opinion polls in his bid for the Republican nomination and was dubbed the “absolute leader” in the race by
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders intensified their attack on finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday, claiming his tenure as chief of Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) was marked by massive financial bungling while the minister rebutted the charges saying no inquiry had revealed any evidence of fraud. The heated politics over
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Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, who has worked with R. Madhavan in Tamil drama ‘Anbesivam’, has wished the latter for his upcoming film ‘Saala Khadoos’, in which he plays a boxing coach. The trailer of ‘Saala Khadoos’ was released on Tuesday. On the occasion, Madhavan paid tribute to Haasan, whom he considers his mentor.Haasan, however, said he
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This news could break many hearts! Bollywood fans never really want to see their favourite stars go down the break-up way. Specially, when it’s about Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. Yes, we are puzzled too. According to MissMalini.com report, Ranbir and Katrina are heading for a splitsville. The portal has originally attributed the report to
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